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The Municipal Court in St. Petersburg, annulled the District Court's earlier decision to block the Crypto Media website Bitcoininfo.ru, informs the local TASS newsletter. The District Court's verdict was released in July 2016 in line with the ban on cryptocurrencies - because digital currencies, such as Bitcoin, were not legal in this country.

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Two Russian financial institutions are to test the regulatory platform, which aims to make national ICOs more transparent and safe for traditional investors. The Russian NSD (National Settlement Depository) has announced that it is working with Sberbank CIB to test the ICO emissions platform launched in April by the Bank of Russia.

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President of the Bank of England Mark Carney said at a conference on the anniversary of the Swedish Riksbank that he is open to the perspective of the digital currency of the central bank (CBDC). Although he is not opposed to the idea of introducing CBDC, Carney stressed that any adaptation of the digital currency will not take place in the near future. The president of the British central bank said that cryptocurrencies are not currently money.

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A group of regulators in Canada and the United States launched an "international suppression" of cryptocurrency frauds. The "Operation Cryptosweep " was presented during a Monday event organized by the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA). Its existence was first reported by the financial media, and details were later presented in the Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance (TDCI) and the Texas State Securities Board (TSSB).

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Economist Alex de Vries, who published the article "Bitcoin's growing energy problem" in the scientific journal Joule, told the financial media, that mining Bitcoin will consume 0.5 percent of world energy by 2018.